Hard Rock Casino Training Youths For Rare Opportunity
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Atlantic City's newest casino is giving 15 young residents a rare gift: the opportunity to break into the construction business.
Hard Rock, which is converting the former Trump Taj Mahal into its own branded casino resort next summer, is sponsoring a 12-week program to train the young workers and then connect them with jobs on the project.
A neighborhood group, "Friends In Action," helped identify candidates.
One of them is Dominick White, who lives in a neighborhood plagued by crime and drugs.
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White says he looks forward to a stable job that will let him escape his surroundings, provide for his family and be able to buy something without worrying where the money will come from.
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About 20 percent of Atlantic City's 22,000 casino workers live in the city.
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